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Our objective was to study prediction mechanisms and benefits of model fusion by measuring mid-infrared (MIR) and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectra, texture, total and labile organic carbon (OC) and nitrogen (N) content, pH, and cation exchange capacity (CEC) for n = 117 soils from an arable field in Germany. Partial least squares regression models underwent a three-fold training\/testing procedure using MIR spectra or elemental concentrations derived from XRF spectra. Additionally, two sequential hybrid and two high-level fusion approaches were tested. For the studied field, MIR was superior for organic properties (ratio of prediction to interquartile distance of validation (RPIQV) for total OC = 7.7 and N = 5.0)), while XRF was superior for inorganic properties (RPIQV for clay = 3.4, silt = 3.0, and sand = 1.8). Even the optimal fusion approach brought little to no accuracy improvement for these properties. The high XRF accuracy for clay and silt is explained by the large number of elements with variable importance in the projection scores &gt;1 (Fe \u2248 Ni &gt; Si \u2248 Al \u2248 Mg &gt; Mn \u2248 K \u2248 Pb (clay only) \u2248 Cr) with strong spearman correlations (\u00b10.57 &lt; rs &lt; \u00b10.90) with clay and silt. For spectrally-inactive properties relying on indirect prediction mechanisms, the relative improvements from the optimal fusion approach compared to the best single spectrometer were marginal for pH (3.2% increase in RPIQV versus MIR alone) but more pronounced for labile OC (9.3% versus MIR) and CEC (12% versus XRF). Dominance of a suboptimal spectrometer in a fusion approach worsened performance compared to the best single spectrometer. Granger-Ramanathan averaging, which weights predictions according to accuracy in training, is therefore recommended as a robust approach to capturing the potential benefits of multiple sensors.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s23020662","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,9]],"date-time":"2023-01-09T06:38:27Z","timestamp":1673246307000},"page":"662","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":20,"title":["Evaluation of Mid-Infrared and X-ray Fluorescence Data Fusion Approaches for Prediction of Soil Properties at the Field Scale"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4762-8474","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Isabel","family":"Greenberg","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Environmental Chemistry, University of Kassel, 37213 Witzenhausen, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6048-1163","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Michael","family":"Vohland","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing, Institute for Geography, Leipzig University, 04103 Leipzig, Germany"},{"name":"Remote Sensing Centre for Earth System Research, Leipzig University, 04103 Leipzig, Germany"},{"name":"German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Michael","family":"Seidel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing, Institute for Geography, Leipzig University, 04103 Leipzig, Germany"},{"name":"Remote Sensing Centre for Earth System Research, Leipzig University, 04103 Leipzig, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Christopher","family":"Hutengs","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing, Institute for Geography, Leipzig University, 04103 Leipzig, Germany"},{"name":"Remote Sensing Centre for Earth System Research, Leipzig University, 04103 Leipzig, Germany"},{"name":"German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Rachel","family":"Bezard","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geochemistry and Isotope Geology, University of G\u00f6ttingen, Goldschmidtstrasse 1, 37077 G\u00f6ttingen, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8900-6190","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bernard","family":"Ludwig","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Environmental Chemistry, University of Kassel, 37213 Witzenhausen, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"151","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ecolind.2018.06.052","article-title":"Soil quality indicators\u2014From soil functions to ecosystem services","volume":"94","author":"Drobnik","year":"2018","journal-title":"Ecol. 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